Type 2 route, MAC with IP advertisement route—Type 2 routes are per-VLAN routes, so only PEs that

are part of a VNI need these routes. EVPN allows an end host’s IP and MAC addresses to be

advertised within the EVPN Network Layer reachability information (NLRI). This allows for control

plane learning of ESI MAC addresses. Because there are many Type 2 routes, a separate route-target

auto-derived per VNI helps to confine their propagation. This route type is supported by all EVPN

switches and routers. Type 5 route, IP prefix Route—An IP prefix route provides encoding for inter-

subnet forwarding. In the control plane, EVPN Type 5 routes are used to advertise IP prefixes for

inter-subnet connectivity across data centers. To reach a tenant using connectivity provided by the

EVPN Type 5 IP prefix route, data packets are sent as Layer 2 Ethernet frames encapsulated in the

VXLAN header over the IP network across the data centers.